Synopsis

int MPI_Win_create(void *base, MPI_Aint size, int disp_unit, MPI_Info info,
                   MPI_Comm comm, MPI_Win *win)
int MPI_Win_create_c(void *base, MPI_Aint size, MPI_Aint disp_unit,
                     MPI_Info info, MPI_Comm comm, MPI_Win *win)

Input Parameters

base

initial address of window (choice)

size

size of window in bytes (non-negative integer)

disp_unit

local unit size for displacements, in bytes (positive integer)

info

info argument (handle)

comm

intra-communicator (handle)

Output Parameters

win

window object (handle)

Notes

The displacement unit argument is provided to facilitate address arithmetic in RMA operations: the target displacement argument of an RMA operation is scaled by the factor disp_unit specified by the target process, at window creation.

The info argument provides optimization hints to the runtime about the expected usage pattern of the window. The following info keys are predefined.

  • no_locks- If set to true, then the implementation may assume that passive target synchronization (i.e., MPI_Win_lock, MPI_Win_lock_all) will not be used on the given window. This implies that this window is not used for 3-party communication, and RMA can be implemented with no (less) asynchronous agent activity at this process.

  • accumulate_ordering - Controls the ordering of accumulate operations at the target. The argument string should contain a comma-separated list of the following read/write ordering rules, where e.g. "raw" means read-after-write: "rar,raw,war,waw".

  • accumulate_ops - If set to same_op, the implementation will assume that all concurrent accumulate calls to the same target address will use the same operation. If set to same_op_no_op, then the implementation will assume that all concurrent accumulate calls to the same target address will use the same operation or MPI_NO_OP. This can eliminate the need to protect access for certain operation types where the hardware can guarantee atomicity. The default is same_op_no_op.

  • mpi_accumulate_granularity - Controls the desired synchronization granularity for accumulate ops. It sets the size of memory range in bytes for which the MPI library should acquire a synchronization primitive to ensure the atomicity of updates. The default is 0 which let the MPI library decides the granularity. When the info hint is set to a positive value, the actual range of synchroniation is round-up to the next size that fits the Datatype used in the accumulate operation (see MPI standard 4.1). All processes in the group of a windows must set to the same value.

Thread and Interrupt Safety

This routine is thread-safe. This means that this routine may be safely used by multiple threads without the need for any user-provided thread locks. However, the routine is not interrupt safe. Typically, this is due to the use of memory allocation routines such as 'malloc' or other non-MPICH runtime routines that are themselves not interrupt-safe.

Notes for Fortran

All MPI routines in Fortran (except for 'MPI_WTIME' and 'MPI_WTICK') have an additional argument 'ierr' at the end of the argument list. 'ierr' is an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the routine in C. In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with the 'call' statement.

All MPI objects (e.g., 'MPI_Datatype', 'MPI_Comm') are of type 'INTEGER' in Fortran.

Errors

All MPI routines (except 'MPI_Wtime' and 'MPI_Wtick') return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. Before the value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error handler may be changed with 'MPI_Comm_set_errhandler' (for communicators), 'MPI_File_set_errhandler' (for files), and 'MPI_Win_set_errhandler' (for RMA windows). The MPI-1 routine 'MPI_Errhandler_set' may be used but its use is deprecated. The predefined error handler 'MPI_ERRORS_RETURN' may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error; however, MPI implementations will attempt to continue whenever possible.

  • MPI_SUCCESS - No error; MPI routine completed successfully.

  • MPI_ERR_ARG - Invalid argument. Some argument is invalid and is not identified by a specific error class (e.g., 'MPI_ERR_RANK').

  • MPI_ERR_COMM - Invalid communicator. A common error is to use a null communicator in a call (not even allowed in 'MPI_Comm_rank').

  • MPI_ERR_DISP - Invalid displacement argument

  • MPI_ERR_INFO - Invalid Info

  • MPI_ERR_SIZE - Invalid size argument

  • MPI_ERR_OTHER - Other error; use 'MPI_Error_string' to get more information about this error code.

See also

MPI_Win_allocate(3) MPI_Win_allocate_shared(3) MPI_Win_create_dynamic(3) MPI_Win_free(3)